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Cape Hatteras is a cape on the coast of North Carolina. It is the point that protrudes the farthest to the southeast along the northeast-to-southwest line of the Atlantic coast of North America...

Timeline of Events

1857

9.12.1857

The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.

1861

8.27.1861

Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

1987

5.28.1987

A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.